Venus with the Apple by Thorvaldsen

Biscuit porcelain

Denmark, second half of the 19th century

Height 30 cm; base diameter 9,5 cm.

Marked on the back of the base: Eneret 15;  and with the three waves of the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory on the underside

Figure modeled after Bertel Thorvaldsen. Model listed in the catalog of the book Thorwaldsen von Adolf Rofenberg (p. 14, fig. 11, “Benus”).